The role of local and landscape level measures of greenness in modelling boreal plant species richness

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 2690-2701

  Parviainen, Miia ^a   Luoto, Miska ^a   Heikkinen, Risto K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Greenness; Landscape level; Local level; Productivity; Remote sensing; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CROSS VALIDATION; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; EXPLANATORY POWER; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FINLAND; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; GREENNESS; GRID CELLS; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSAT ETM; LANDSCAPE LEVEL; LOCAL INFORMATION; LOCAL LEVEL; PLANT FAMILIES; PLANT SPECIES; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING DATA; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SATELLITE IMAGES; SPECIES RICHNESS; STANDARD DEVIATION; UNIMODAL; CROSS VALIDATION STATISTICS; PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NDVI; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 69549126352     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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